Program Summary

Through the Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP), Egyptian teachers are helping American youth meet the challenges of learning Arabic while enriching the students’ understanding of the region. For three years beginning in 2008, AMIDEAST has worked as a subcontractor to American Councils for International Education to recruit the Egyptian teachers, who spend a year teaching Arabic language and culture for an academic year at primary and secondary schools across the United States. The program, which is funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State, is also designed to provide the Egyptian teachers with opportunities to learn more about U.S. teaching methodologies, culture, and society, as well as to improve their English language proficiency.

YES SCHOLARS WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO:

• Live with an American family
• Study at a U.S. high school
• Participate in a youth leadership training program
• Experience U.S. culture and society first hand
• Improve their English
• Make new friends
• Represent as Bahrain cultural ambassadors to the USA

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:

Consult your high school for information about the YES TOWNHALL MEETING to be held in November

Program Summary

The Bicommunal Support Program (BSP) was established in 2000 as part of the U.S. effort to assist Cyprus in finding a reasonable and practical federal solution to the Cyprus problem through activities that bring together the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities. AMIDEAST administers the BSP on behalf of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Embassy in Cyprus. The goal of the program is to encourage cooperation between Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot professionals, students, and community leaders through bicommunal activities that encourage the participants to work together to break down barriers and find practical solutions to island-wide concerns.

Main Goals

• Create opportunities for island-wide collaborations between the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities

• Foster sustainable island-wide networks for leaders, students, and professionals active in bicommunal efforts

• Develop a cadre of trained individuals from both communities who can make positive contributions to Cyprus’s development 

Highlights

Recent BSP activities include:

• The Jazz Futures Program uses music to promote collaboration and dialogue through jazz workshops and jam sessions which are held regularly in the UN-controlled Buffer Zone and at clubs within the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities.

The information made available through links at this Web site are provided as a public service to those visiting our site. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the CASP program or AMIDEAST, nor do we assume any responsibility for the content provided on these linked sites.

• Republic of Cyprus Home Page
• North Cyprus Home Page
• U.S. State Deptartment. Country Study: Cyprus
• The Cyprus Forum
• The Cyprus Weekly
• Peace-Cyprus
  
• Greek-Turkish friendship-building
• Cypriot Poetry
• Cyprus Fulbright Commission

This site is designed to make it easy for you to access the forms necessary to keep AMIDEAST informed of your progress and to insure that your scholarship benefits remain intact.

Forms for Visas: CASP now prepares form DS-2019, a document generated by the SEVIS Student Tracking System, which was mandated by the U.S. Patriot Act of 2001. When the DS 2019 is issued, you will be officially enrolled in SEVIS. This form entitles you to apply for a J-1 visa. After entering the US and arriving at your university, you must call your AMIDEAST adviser so that we can validate your arrival. If your arrival is not validated, SEVIS will automatically change your status to "no-show." We now issue DS 2019s valid for the duration of your program, thus eliminating the need for annual renewal.

If you travel (e.g. returning home over the winter break) you must send the DS 2019 to AMIDEAST for us to sign under "travel validation." This signature is valid for one year.

Term Course Schedule Form: This form is your CASP preregistration. Just as you preregister for classes each semester for the following semester, you need to complete this form so that your CASP adviser can monitor your academic program. You will receive an e-mail message and a link to this page each semester indicating the date by which your term course schedule is due at AMIDEAST.

Program Summary

Since 1981, the Cyprus-America Scholarship Program (CASP) has brought thousands of Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot students and professionals to the United States for degree programs and specialized training in fields that are vital to that country’s needs, while also seeking to promote improved communication, confidence, and trust between Turkish- and Greek-Cypriots through special bicommunal activities. The U.S. Department of State-funded initiative seeks to advance Cyprus’ economic and social development through higher education.

Main Goals

• Expand the human resource capacity of Cyprus by providing opportunities for U.S. study at the undergraduate, and in the past, graduate levels; short-term professional training; and youth enrichment

• Promote inter-communal understanding through workshops in conflict resolution and specially designed activities that build confidence and trust between individuals from the Turkish- and Greek-Cypriot communities

Highlights

• AMIDEAST has managed the scholarship programs for nearly 2,000 Cypriots enrolled in U.S. undergraduate and graduate programs through the CASP program.

• AMIDEAST has planned individualized short-term training programs at U.S. institutions for several hundred mid-career professionals.

• Hundreds of Cypriot youth have learned valuable lessons designed to improve cooperation and understanding at conflict resolution summer camps in the United States since 1998.

AMIDEAST is one of five organizations that administer a component of the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program. This U.S. Department of State-funded scholarship program provides secondary school students in 40 countries spanning throughout the Middle East, Africa, South/Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and South America, the opportunity to live and study in the United States for a full academic year. Libya has recently been added to the country roster for the 2013-2014 academic year, and qualified students will be recruited by AMIDEAST as well.